Let's create together a new sport practice

Imagine an international Esport competition around a new practice mixing real and virtual. The teams, after having won the play-off round in their respective countries, finally face each other by super-powers interposed in the virtual arena of the stadium officially selected for the final of the world championship.

The public came en masse to witness the confrontation, broadcast in parallel on the VR streaming channels.

In a frenetic ballet mixing martial arts and supernatural cybernetic abilities,
the athletes, moulded in their eXosuits and equipped with their VR headset, released by their movements all the power of their avatars.

Some deploy force fields, others pure energy waves or swarms of drones. Each team tries to gain the upper hand over the opponent to achieve the objective of the game that will lead them to victory.

This is the dream of the 3 co-founders of Bigger Inside, 2 brothers and their mutual friend, all 3 passionate about technology and video games. In 2014, the release of the Oculus Rift DK2 by Oculus VR promises to take VR to the next level and democratize it by taking advantage of the technologies resulting from the rise of smartphones.

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Imagine an international Esport competition around a new practice mixing real and virtual. The teams, after having won the play-off round in their respective countries, finally face each other by super-powers interposed in the virtual arena of the stadium officially selected for the final of the world championship.

The public came en masse to witness the confrontation, broadcast in parallel on the VR streaming channels.

In a frenetic ballet mixing martial arts and supernatural cybernetic abilities,
the athletes, moulded in their eXosuits and equipped with their VR headset, released by their movements all the power of their avatars.

Some deploy force fields, others pure energy waves or swarms of drones. Each team tries to gain the upper hand over the opponent to achieve the objective of the game that will lead them to victory.

This is the dream of the 3 co-founders of Bigger Inside, 2 brothers and their mutual friend, all 3 passionate about technology and video games. In 2014, the release of the Oculus Rift DK2 by Oculus VR promises to take VR to the next level and democratize it by taking advantage of the technologies resulting from the rise of smartphones.

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But you always had to have a strong stomach when doing experiences simulating movement. Because the user, sitting in a chair, remained desperately still even if his point of view in the headset moved quickly. The brain always refused to believe the deception, and the seasickness associated with this dissonance ruined the experience! The lack of representation of the user's body in the virtual world added to the overall frustration of the experience.

How to make the brain believe that the user is moving in the virtual universe and thus overcome this motion sickness? How to finally obtain a level of immersion that meets the expectations of these 3 science-fiction enthusiasts?

By making the players actually move while capturing all of their movements so that the avatar reproduces them identically.

But you always had to have a strong stomach when doing experiences simulating movement. Because the user, sitting in a chair, remained desperately still even if his point of view in the headset moved quickly. The brain always refused to believe the deception, and the seasickness associated with this dissonance ruined the experience! The lack of representation of the user's body in the virtual world added to the overall frustration of the experience.

How to make the brain believe that the user is moving in the virtual universe and thus overcome this motion sickness? How to finally obtain a level of immersion that meets the expectations of these 3 science-fiction enthusiasts?

By making the players actually move while capturing all of their movements so that the avatar reproduces them identically.

From this observation was born Protocol 223, after 5 years of R&D punctuated by tests with the general public. The first took place during the release of Ready Player One by Steven Spielberg in March 2018. For the first time in the world, the public was able to try out a mixed reality free movement experience that merged real and virtual walls and in which players competed against each other using their body movements to trigger their abilities.

Following this, Bigger Inside joined the Business & Innovation Center of Montpellier, ranked as the world's second largest incubator for innovative companies, in order to finalize the development of its experience and commercialize it.

The first commercial version of the eXosuit, which captures the movements of the entire body of the player, including each finger of the hand, was presented worldwide at the CES in Las Vegas in January 2019. The team then worked hard to complete the development of the game and present the alpha version at the Occitanie Esport in June 2019 and conduct playtests of the beta version in September.

Protocol 223 is finally available to players since December 2019 at The Cluster room in Montpellier. The deployment of new rooms will first take place in France before entering the international market at the end of 2021.

From this observation was born Protocol 223, after 5 years of R&D punctuated by tests with the general public. The first took place during the release of Ready Player One by Steven Spielberg in March 2018. For the first time in the world, the public was able to try out a mixed reality free movement experience that merged real and virtual walls and in which players competed against each other using their body movements to trigger their abilities.

Following this, Bigger Inside joined the Business & Innovation Center of Montpellier, ranked as the world's second largest incubator for innovative companies, in order to finalize the development of its experience and commercialize it.

The first commercial version of the eXosuit, which captures the movements of the entire body of the player, including each finger of the hand, was presented worldwide at the CES in Las Vegas in January 2019. The team then worked hard to complete the development of the game and present the alpha version at the Occitanie Esport in June 2019 and conduct playtests of the beta version in September.

Protocol 223 is finally available to players since December 2019 at The Cluster room in Montpellier. The deployment of new rooms will first take place in France before entering the international market at the end of 2021.

The founders

At the base of the development team,

the 3 co-founders have brought to Bigger Inside complementary know-how which allows the company to have a complete technical mastery of the solution.

Ceo / Hardware development manager

Benjamin Rolland

Benjamin is responsible for the development of eXosuit. He designed the system for acquiring the measurements of the movements of each articulated limb and its integration via the suit worn over the players' clothing.

Before embarking on the Bigger Inside adventure, Benjamin spent 14 years gaining experience in R&D development and industrialization in the medical, aerospace and energy transport sectors as an Optoelectronics engineer. As a product manager, he managed multidisciplinary teams of engineers specialized in mechanics, electronics, optics, computer science and materials.

Software development manager

Damien Hoffschir

Damien is responsible for IT development. It is the software architect who creates the bridge between the hardware, the humans and the game. He transforms the data from the sensors into data that can be used by the game engine, develops the game control application, collects the data from the game to allow their display in replay ...

Damien is a full stack IT engineer with 15 years of experience in team and service manager positions in companies operating in various fields ranging from equipment R&D to multimedia. In addition to his technical and managerial know-how, he brings to the trio his experience of co-creation of an innovative company lived in 2008.

Game development manager

Mathias Rolland

Mathias is responsible for the development of the game. He defines and implements the game mechanics and supervises the creative team. Among other things, he exploits in the game the players' movement data provided by Damien to trigger the avatars' special abilities and interactions.

He is the video game expert of the founding team. After working for a few years as a web and software developer, he succumbed to the call of passion and followed a training in Gameplay Programming for 2 years before joining the Ubisoft Studio in Montpellier. There he was able to develop his experience during 5 years on licenses such as "assassin's creed" and "ghost recon".